exterminate

• vt. 消滅；根除

ex-, 向外。-term, 界限，終端，詞源同term, terminal. 即趕到界限外麵，根除。

exterminate (v.)

1540s, "drive away," from Latin exterminatus, past participle of exterminare "drive out, expel, put aside, drive beyond boundaries," also, in Late Latin "destroy," from phrase ex termine "beyond the boundary," from ex- "out of" (see ex-) + termine, ablative of termen "boundary, limit, end" (see terminus).

Meaning "destroy utterly" is from 1640s in English, a sense found in equivalent words in French and in the Vulgate; earlier in this sense was extermine (mid-15c.). Related: Exterminated; exterminating.

1. A huge effort was made to exterminate the rats.

滅鼠花了大力氣。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Some people exterminate garden insects by spraying poison on the plants.

有些人在植物上噴撒毒劑以殺死花園內的昆蟲.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. It is necessary to exterminate the post at the sawmill.

必須端掉鋸木廠邊的哨所.

來自辭典例句

4. This spray will exterminate the termites.

這種噴劑能消滅白蟻.

來自辭典例句

5. Vermin don't have to exterminate themselves.

蟲豸是用不著自己殺害自己的.

來自辭典例句